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7 Kultur, Kommunikation, Medien
| Sprache / Kulturinstitutionen, Archive, Bibliotheken, Museen, Galerien, Ausstellungen / Kulturtheorien, Soziokultur / Presse / Alternativpresse / Gegenöffentlichkeit, Medientheorie / Rundfunk / Fernsehen / Informationsübermittlung / Internet / Open Source / Netzkritik, Netzkultur, Netzkunst / Neitzbewegung, Netzaktivismus / E-Texte, Digitale Texte / Kino / Theater / Musik / Bücher / Verlage, Literatur / Zensur / Kunst / Satire, Humor
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| Systematik: | ID-Archiv EATC id-e-714 id-e-812 |
| | Status: | Changed | | Checked: | 03-03-02 04:12:23 PM |
| | Adresse: | postal address Rembrandtstr. 31/10 A-1020 Vienna phone +43-1- 332 6691-22 fax +43-1- 333 2970 e-mail office@eurozine.com |
| | Selbstdarstellung: | | about eurozine the founders of eurozine are: Kritika & Kontext, Mittelweg36, Ord&Bild, Revista Crítica, Transit, Wespennest eurozine is an independent network of and portal for European cultural journals and a multilingual magazine of its own. eurozine links and promotes the leading cultural magazines from all over Europe; drawing on this network it publishes contemporary essays and literary texts on its website. By providing a Europe-wide overview of current themes and discussions, as published in the cultural journals involved in the project, eurozine facilitates communication and exchange between the journals themselves and offers a rich source of information for an international readership. By presenting the best articles from its partners and their countries, as well as original texts on the most pressing issues of our times, eurozine opens up a new space for transnational debate. eurozine is a non-profit institution, with an editorial office based in Vienna and an editorial board composed of the editors of 5 European cultural journals. eurozine presently gives access to about 100 periodicals. more about eurozine The history eurozine emerged from an informal network that began in 1983. Since that date a variety of European cultural magazines have met once a year in a European city to exchange ideas and experience. In the meantime approximately 50 periodicals from almost every European country have become involved in these meetings. In 1995 the meeting took place in Vienna, organised jointly by the periodicals Wespennest and Transit - Europäische Revue. The success of this meeting, in which numerous East European magazines participated for the first time, and the rapid development of the Internet encouraged the editors to reinforce the existing loose network with a virtual but more systematic one. The strategy: An alliance between old and new media Cultural magazines represent Europe's self-image more than any other medium. Today, however, they are an endangered species, threatened by increasing economic pressure and growing competition from other media. Paradoxically, it is precisely the new medium of the Internet which could reinforce the traditional medium of cultural journals. Whenever European culture is discussed today, its diversity is evoked with near euphoria. But diversity also means fragmentation and barriers, linguistic as well as economic. In order to defend European diversity and not to sacrifice it for a uniform global culture, additional efforts are necessary to support the work of translation between cultures as is done by cultural journals. This is where the Internet can help. Pessimists regard it as the spearhead of cultural globalisation. However, they overlook that at the same time the Internet offers the scattered diaspora of cultural journals a powerful means to concentrate their strength and to oppose this trend. Designed as an independent cultural platform eurozine uses the world wide web - to promote the leading European cultural journals, - to intensify communication and exchange between them, and - to offer, as a journal of its own, a public space of a new type for open and critical debate on a transnational level. |
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